brock obama reportedly all the rise is secret cia operations in libya and songwriting analysts can stand the ground intervention is being. nato countries consider all meaning the opposition for the season in libya the sponsor of take us through the things that they often about times of arrogance. what good japan's a damaging for the sheba nuclear power in all this is suspended and radiation levels are rising at the latest attempt to block a song by play. watson travel to siberia as me it

seems you're preparing some plan think the space travelers returning to that missions in a. very warm welcome to you this is on the scene like us president barack obama has reported the selling secret orders allowing cia teams and libya to gather intelligence and links with rebels meanwhile the libyan foreign minister has arrived in britain saying he's no longer willing to work under the regime of cullen mayle gadhafi. to see how the leaders from tripoli. well they have been air strikes in the east and south eastern suburbs of tripoli at a military base there while the front line seems to have been pushed back it is now not far from the town of ajdabiya which is just seventy kilometers weights of the rebel stronghold of benghazi there have been a number of coalition air strikes in and around darby i would switch thirty dozen

jets that the coalition is afraid there could have his forces are closing in on this town and also they can offer i just double or two for gadhafi forces now the to rein back a little fighters are fighting on is working against them it is essentially one highway image is that it is very hard for them to get supplies and certainly at this stage it does seem as if this coalition is strikes are making very little difference on the ground gadhafi is winning the war but certainly he has been dealt a psychological blow to his foreign minister mr koussa has defected and he's currently in discussions with the british intelligence not koussa has been the foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years and opposition earned him the nickname of the man of the day he is good enough he's a right hand man he is trusted by gadhafi but he certainly has been described as a shrewd operator body international community and so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr newsome koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how

important can the information he has be to the coalition partners nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the questions being posed not only actually are the international community are that they might be liberating the rebels but this certainly is a very different an aria from the arab democratic revolutions that we saw in tunisia and egypt where the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip he has had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels. themselves have shown themselves to lack good leadership could be quite loosely organized by large not to actually know how to use the weapons i think you have now we understand that about two to three weeks ago the american president barack obama reportedly signed a secret order that saw the deployment of cia agents to this country we understand

that they have been making contact with the opposition fighters they've been assessing their needs determining restrains i want to key though what tripoli is saying is that it might be a good thing that the discussion is now on the international table on the international agenda in terms of arming the rebels because it is forcing the international community to revisit the question of who is among their ranks at the same time it is questioning the fall of just from the sea of this operation as my colleague explored further. the international community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi in washington last of all further than that and he's considering arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling saddam is the objective of its involvement in libya we're broadening our military mission to include regime change would be like president obama has reportedly signed a secret order authorizing covert american support for rebel forces seeking to oust believe your leader critics of the u.s.

taking sides in a civil war war of the consequences we help accelerate the chaos. and in creating more chaos we're to we think somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states in iraq the same here bush bad kid shows pinioned in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck events and the outcome in libya we cannot do that nor do we have the right to determine who the leader of libya should be many fear radical forces could take advantage of the chaos in libya former jihadist noman bennett men who are now sisal qaeda affiliate and in two thousand says he has to mates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one day be a rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have links other reports say terrorists seized libyan surface to air missiles when arsenals were looted nato intelligence

reports claim flickers of al qaida and hezbollah have been found among the rebels in libya but maintained there is no reason to believe their presence is significant but a u.s. military study three years ago said lidia's made up the second largest group of jihadists in the world right after saudi arabia all of that seems to be discarded as the u.s. is trying to prop up the opposition in libya as some analysts say in an attempt to forge a relationship with them that would be favorable for the united states in the future but experts say arming the rebels could backfire we've been in a situation in afghanistan one day we help people and the next day they shoot at us in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s. had a narrow goal to help them fight soviet troops subsequently the same militants turned their rockets and training against the u.s. . among those of them was osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al

qaida. and what we see with the troubles. you know so. leading to. construction of the boat well over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen america is now considering giving weapons to another rebel band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against going to check on our t. washington d.c. but for more on the latest developments in libya including the defection of the foreign minister let's cross live to mark on the visiting professor of international relations at university paid her turkey and many times for being with us professor on the. foreign minister and a former spy chief has a report he's affected and we do now know we've learned this within just the last few minutes that the u.k. foreign secretary william hague has said the mystic you said will not speed off it immunity there but nonetheless was so taken up with

a person who was once expelled from the u.k. and accused of funding terrorism it is now arrived in the country. well this is a big coup for the british to begin about and right as you say he was an intelligence officer with the cover of being a man who was supposed to help organize attacks and threats against it in exiles in britain and then later on to be a key figure in the lockerbie bombing so over one hand he has an enormous amount of knowledge about the charges against his regime and british government raised as being the reasons why the british public. now on the other hand he's also a key figure in trying to undermine about. british government but he also has a legacy or being in charge of intelligence operations against libyans inside libya ok in other words with chief of police not so much a spy chief in the sense of or until now ruckel fight is in libya are reportedly do

you think rounded up by nato. regulate the bomb and then why it. well i think the rebels may see have been highly disorganized and in a sense all too reliant on external support there are some indications that we've had to price in the car going on at the same time a popular dislike of qatar his regime in eastern libya but also a foreign promoted uprising by people from within the regime was across into this recent where we've had a former minister the interior minister of justice and we also have a lot of exiles in britain who have close contacts with the libyan intelligence chief was not affected noosa christmas so i think we see that there's also a kind of intelligence are rising going on as well as a popular uprising at the same time. i'm afraid that we seem to have lost a connection there with the professor. in anchorage.

i will try to respond to him if we can press so that was mark on the defense and professor of international relations at the university in taki well still to come on the program the latest in our russia close stop series. there is no telling where cars will live so. here anything is the boss of the russian of the russian space agency exercises just so must be scheduled to. take a look at how the repairs to greet explorers returning of probable. weaving on to japan are now the operation to make the stricken fukushima nuclear power plants safe has been delayed workers are trying to convert it down as two reactors were the height resin designed to dry and hard and prevent further radiation leaks good rain is hunkering their efforts with the level of radiation seen in the sea is

now for half a thousand times higher than the government says it's not considering an expansion of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the site despite the un's discovery of concern how many to its soil forty kilometers away japan's prime minister now says the plant commissioned following the damage done by the devastating earthquake and tsunami screamed weeks ago dr john at large is an independent nuclear consultant says the crisis shows that japan was ill prepared for such an emergency . the problem is really the big fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest of the developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered this cascade from earthquake food to tsunami could never happen or would happen so infrequently but they didn't have to take account of it and as a result they never practice is never rehearsed for this type of accident and we can see effectively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running

around the corner an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they take a measure like friday and quench in the reactors we water that may well lead to serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to do with the water whether to keep it in site in bond trenches or to actually destroy get to see with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been ill prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeed in action. which caused massive destruction out. wipes out entire communities people who lost their homes they're living in overcrowded shelters while the cleanup operation goes on even after that many will still have nowhere to go with. gardner. this is the first

time many residents of. have seen their houses since the tsunami surged through them but in most a little of value remains subtle shinji is not trying to salvage material possessions. my house was totally destroyed and my husband died in the tsunami now i'm honoring him by getting his personal things out i just wish everything could go back to how it was. shinji has been housed at the local school with several hundred others people here have been taking turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. but they cramped conditions mean of after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is fraying and. we're dissatisfied with your forties we know there are temporary houses that will be put up but who will get them some areas are being favored over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally

go up it won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are moving the rubble as fast as they can but all the victims of the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can come here rebuild the house and call of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns relied for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exists and there's little hope of ever getting them back. the government is good at solving big problems not the ones of a small people i don't think this town will ever be a rebuild as it was even if i restore what i have and no one will build anything next to my house. but the government providing food and temporary shelter was a relatively straightforward part in helping victims cope with the disaster making sure people have a place and a community to return to will be much more difficult. now of r.t.

. japan coming up later here on out to alice max keiser and stacy herbert pick apart the latest the business headlines. that the average american lost twenty three percent of their net wealth. forbes wealthiest list reflects changes in global economy and the wealth of the world's billionaires was up twenty five percent in the same time that the wealth of the american population was down twenty three percent yes yes it's a club talk or see this is normally capitalism is about risk reward risk reward winners and losers like this you say this is this is what f.d.r. guaranteed during the depression when he brought in the f.c.c. and f.b.i. cia and all the reforms like last legal but the last twenty five years banks to j.p. morgan goldman sachs we have something like this we take all your money. there

are some other international stories making headlines this hour twelve people happing twenty wounded on a roadside bomb in northwestern pakistan it's told that a convoy carrying a prominent islamize politician. it's still to be the second attack on the same politician in the last two days again escaped unharmed but a police truck and several shots were destroyed in the blogs. the un security council has voted unanimously for an immediate end to violence in the ivory coast sanctions will be imposed on eight hundred president bowen's in a circle but council the un peacekeepers should be able to use all means necessary to protect civilians but those calls as supporters of the internationally recognized president out of other seize control of the administrative capital as

well as ivory coast second largest groups. police in syria have reportedly opened the fire as a demonstration of the volatile city of here though it's unclear where the shots were fired at protestors or into the air it followed a speech by president bashar assad in which he did not offer to rest a state of emergency as happened why do you predicted according to human rights groups over sixty people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests in march. today the close up it takes us to the doorstep of siberia the chilly alban sky region renowned for its nuclear research and all of the developments the region was shut off to war foreigners into this recently as the early ninety's but now it's why day prince everyone.

generale been. welcoming policy for returning calls little's answer of course is one of the designated space capsule landing zones special recovery teams are always razor trying to retrieve them just minutes after they land but as you know going to school reports it's not quite as easy as it sounds. months spent in space i mean stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity. or an astronaut is no easy task. but after their mission is complete and a return to earth mission for other men and women begins. obviously there's no telling where. here anything is. wrong. the space agency regularly exercises just a month before. in fact the rescue operation kicks

off even before the caps or the cosmonauts lands. it's one of the most exciting moments hearing your headphones have the guns on their radar they're watching us and following. all the survival practices that we needed. but though this is how it usually happens the search and rescue teams on land know that it's better to be safe than sorry. as regular are everywhere. to test the condition of the equipment in vehicles of the preparedness of the personnel our team has an extensive experience in this field and we are ready to work in any condition. several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachutists to medical staff finding a landing capsule opening it up there in the cosmos out into the open back on terra firma of course during the training one of the rescuers acts as

a stand in for the cosmonauts the whole process normally takes twenty five to thirty minutes but in order to achieve that speed months of training are needed after all there are a lot lives at stake and one of the most important factors and weather is also one of the most unpredictable. this of course is the hardest when helicopters contraflow in only the ground can get to the cosmonauts create them and get them to the nearest airfield we always have very little time and we must get them out as soon as possible. hardly a low pressure working environment but their reward is priceless it's just i'd like to say for all cosmonauts we greatly respect you guys and really love us and i hope that all knowledge of lifesaving skills that you have will never be needed by you. right thank you internet and. go arts. names

a box of ice and even a poem bag gulden beds in the language of its indigenous peoples well the alaska means the great. coming away later in the program. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. traditional language is really. the best the copy. and culture. thing is that the have the germans are still unaware of what's going on in their mind silastic. like. i don't know alaska the great. monarchy. ok where is his business he's on the way now with katrina.

thank you alison thank you for staying with us here and welcome to the business news for this hour new regulations for russian state companies have been spelled out by president medvedev he says regulation needs to be significantly improved in order to help the country's investment climate. we are pretty much as deliberate in order to reduce the influence of state companies on the investment climate we need to do three things as it is the first of all to publicize the show jewel of state companies privatization but it would actually turn of years then to eliminate practices where government ministers hold positions on the board of directors in competitive companies and thirdly state companies need to establish a procedure for publicizing planned particular nodes it would include in prices and information about contrary to the way bully this list of corporate bond the president's plans have been widely welcomed by the business community in russia many see it as a way forward to attract critical investment. that place in russia or the seventh largest economy in the world when it gets around a half

a percent of the world's foreign direct investments this is definitely on acceptable and the fact that these measures were spelled out is an important step to push an old government institution structural it's working on this problem. both for president putin president medvedev tend to call a spade a spade if there's problems they say those problems that's the first kind of comfort point for international investors but the big question is implementation it's one thing to have a good bunch of policy measures and it's another to make sure they actually get implemented and make a difference on the ground sounds have a look at how the stock markets are performing this hour the asian markets closed in the black on signs of the global economy is recovering after japan's record earthquake the nikkei gained almost half a percent and the hang seng closed up point three percent european stocks win between gains and losses on early trading as banking stocks gave up only session gains ahead of the result for the irish bank stress tests the biggest decline of

there was a gentleman whose shares dropped almost percent after its earnings missed forecasts both the footsie and the drags are flat at the moment russian markets are mixed this hour with m i six down almost point six percent and the as he s. is up around point two percent every moment now it's a look at some individual share moves in a few majors are losing this hour in fact all are losing this hour with rosneft and lukoil both down around point eight percent level start also down the moment with this with nicole almost almost one percent in the red on the r.t.s. . the world's biggest alimony and produce a result has posted a more than three fold increase in net profit figures for two thousand and ten show revenues up i could ten billion dollars with a profit of two point eight billion dollars traded on the hong kong market and shares have been up almost five percent on the news they come. he says it plans to expand production in two thousand and eleven. and it's also good news from one of

russia's biggest mining and steel companies ever as profit two thousand and ten is up to five hundred thirty million dollars with a ninety percent increase in even the company's president says they are going to invest almost three hundred million dollars in russian based production in the next two or three years the outlook for the two thousand level is pretty rosy too with a company planning to boost steel output by seven percent ever as expects the demand for construction steel within russia to grow by ten percent this year. russia's gold and international currency reserves have reserves have topped the hopper trillion dollar mark the central bank of russia says the reserves have been steadily climbing for the last six weeks thanks to rising oil prices the reserves are now worth five hundred four billion dollars but it's still a long way from the high of mid two thousand and eight when the country held almost six hundred billion dollars in reserve. russia's budget is currently being boosted

by higher than expected oil prices they're rising significantly amid tensions in north africa some analysts suggest the government should use the extra revenues to increase public spending those the world bank things work needs to be done on the fiscal policy first. when commodities prices rise there is a pain patient. going to governments to slacken the fiscal stance and to increase the expenditures and delayed necessary fiscal adjustment but i think in russia that would be a mistake i think that the sustainable long term fiscal deficit of russia has been estimated by various experts of the order of about four to five percent of g.d.p. growth so for the half right now it's about twelve and the gap between the two represents the magnitude of the necessary fiscal adjustment over the medium term in order for fiscal policy to reach a long term sustainable level so that's a challenge and that adjustment should not be delayed into the future just because

the oil prices are high temporarily. well that's all the business news for this hour remember you can always keep up to date online athey dot com slash business.

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